Chaucer
Subtitle: The Canterbury Tales (Analysing Texts)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 15, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780312213763
Subjects: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Chaucer, Geoffrey; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Outlines, syllabi, etc; Chaucer, Geoffrey, D.1400; Poetry; Canterbury tales; Chaucer, Geoffrey,; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature; Examinations; Storytelling in literature; Study guides; Tales, Medieval; d. 1400; Literary Criticism
First sentence: Geoffrey Chaucer wrote The Canterbury Tales almost 600 years ago, in the late Middle Ages, a historical distance that at first sight might appear problematic.